
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON QUARTERLY
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to prove himself true to God,—under all circumstances to
act as became a subject of the King of heaven. He would
serve the Lord with undivided heart; he would meet the
trials of his lot with fortitude, and perform every duty with
fidelity."—"Patriarchs and
Prophets," pages 213, 214-
6.
After Moses had been given into his mother's hands
by Pharaoh's daughter to be nurtured, "she faithfully im-
proved her opportunity to educate her child for God. She
felt confident that he had been preserved for some great work,
and she knew that he must soon be given up to his royal
mother, to be surrounded with influences that would tend
to lead him away from God. All this rendered her more
diligent and careful in his instruction than in that of her
other children. She endeavored to imbue his mind with the
fear of God and the love of truth and justice, and earnestly
prayed that he might be preserved from every corrupting
influence. She showed him the folly and sin of idolatry, and
early taught him to bow down and pray to the living God,
who alone could hear him and help him in every emergency.
"She kept the boy as long as she could, but was obliged
to give him up when he was about twelve years old. From
his humble cabin home he was taken to the royal palace, to
the daughter of Pharaoh, 'and he became her son.' Yet even
here he did not lose the impressions received in childhood.
The lessons learned at his mother's side could not be for-
gotten. They were a shield from the pride, the infidelity,
and the vice that flourished amid the splendor of the court."—
Id., pages 243,
244.
7.
Daniel's fidelity to God in a heathen court, is traceable
to the influences that molded his character in his Judean
home. "Joseph and Daniel proved themselves true to the
principles of their early training. . . . The same mighty
truths that were revealed through these men, God desires
to reveal through the youth and the children of to-day."—
"Education," pages 56, 57.
8.
"Unfeigned faith" on the part of the grandmother and
the mother may pass on to the son also, as it did to Timothy,
because of his knowing the Scriptures from his childhood.
9.
Let every youth remember his Creator while he is yet
young, and let every parent train up each child in the way
he should go.
10.
Christian education in the home is the foundation of
the integrity and usefulness of son or daughter wherever
the providence of God may lead.
"Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are
white already to harvest."